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Last updated: April 16, 2025 7:12 pm
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The Trump administration is suing Maine after the state’s management refused to bow to President Donald Trump’s demand that transgender youngsters be handled like second-class residents.

The Division of Justice alleges in its swimsuit filed Wednesday that Maine is in violation of the federal Title IX anti-discrimination regulation as a result of it continues to permit transgender women to take part in class sports activities. 

In February, Trump signed the manager order “Keeping Men Out of Women’s Sports” that instructs the federal authorities to withhold funds from states that don’t adhere to Trump’s ideological perception that gender is restricted to the intercourse assigned at beginning.

Trump is suing this state for saying no to his bigoted calls for
Democratic Gov. Janet Mills of Maine

However Maine has a state regulation, the Maine Human Rights Act, which considers gender id a protected class and particularly states that denying equal alternatives in class athletic packages is taken into account discrimination.

“Today is the latest, expected salvo in an unprecedented campaign to pressure the State of Maine to ignore the Constitution and abandon the rule of law,” Democratic Gov. Janet Mills of Maine stated in a assertion.

She went on to say that Trump doesn’t have the ability to power Maine to conform together with his anti-trans calls for.

“As I have said previously, this is not just about who can compete on the athletic field, this is about whether a President can force compliance with his will, without regard for the rule of law that governs our nation. I believe he cannot,” Mills wrote.

The confrontation between Mills and Trump first flared up in February, when the president chided Mills for declining to conform together with his edict when she attended a White Home ceremony. 

“You better do it, because you’re not going to get any federal funding at all if you don’t,” Trump threatened.

“See you in court,” Mills replied.

 Since then, the Trump administration has launched a number of federal investigations into Maine as retribution for the state not complying with its pro-discrimination stance.

In an look on MSNBC’s “Morning Joe” on Monday, earlier than the swimsuit was filed, Mills stated that she’s “appalled” at Trump’s stance and his perception that “he could just rewrite the law.”

And, Mills famous, there are presently solely two transgender athletes competing in Maine faculties, regardless of Trump placing the complete weight of the federal authorities on the state.

When this truth was identified to Legal professional Common Pam Bondi throughout an look on Fox Information Wednesday, she angrily dismissed it, saying that “one is too many” and that Mills “shouldn’t have said that, shouldn’t have done this.”

As in different circumstances of the Trump administration’s excessive overreach, a federal courtroom just lately dominated towards its actions.

On April 12, U.S. District Courtroom Decide John Woodcock ordered Trump to unfreeze federal funds from the Division of Agriculture which can be devoted to Maine. These funds had been minimize off as a result of Maine was in “defiance of federal law,” in keeping with the Trump administration.

The Trump administration’s battle with Maine is only one of many fronts in current GOP makes an attempt to assault transgender equality and relegate trans People to second-class standing. The Republican Social gathering has tried to encourage conservative voters by relentlessly attacking trans individuals.

However Maine is preventing again, and now the administration is escalating its lawless campaign towards fundamental human rights.

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